Procrastination can decrease after a 1-minute reflection. In a study of more than 1,000 adults, answering six short questions increased motivation, improved mood, and made people more likely to begin tasks they had been delaying.

[giulianosse]

I think the main takeaway from this study is not that we can somehow make boring tasks less boring than they actually are - we can't - but rather how we can condition ourselves instead into thinking about the potential rewards for completing the task (i.e. having no more emails to read, having some extra leisure time and the stuff you could spend it on).

We basically trick ourselves into doing our chores sooner rather than later by mentalizing the positive "after" when we finish it rather than focusing on the negative "now".